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‘It was a shark operation’: Q&A with Indonesian crew abused on Chinese shark-finning boat

Philip Jacobson and Basten Gokkon 2 Dec 2022

As shark numbers plummet, nations seek ban on devastatingly effective gear

Philip Jacobson 26 Nov 2022

How Mitsubishi vacuumed up tuna from a rogue Chinese fishing fleet

Annelise Giseburt 10 Nov 2022
A truck carrying acacia logs in Indonesia

Biomass cofiring loopholes put coal on open-ended life support in Asia

Annelise Giseburt 29 Aug 2022

In Japanese waters, a newly described anemone lives on the back of a hermit crab

Liz Kimbrough 2 Aug 2022

Planned coal plants fizzle as Japan ends financing in Indonesia, Bangladesh

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Jun 2022
Timber for biomass burning at Tofte, Norway

Missing the emissions for the trees: Biomass burning booms in East Asia

Justin Catanoso 11 May 2022

‘Our land, our life’: Okinawans hold out against new U.S. base in coastal zone

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 25 Nov 2021

COP26: Surging wood pellet industry threatens climate, say experts

Sharon Guynup 9 Nov 2021

As seizures of poached giant clams rise, links to ivory trade surface

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Oct 2021

Worked to death: How a Chinese tuna juggernaut crushed its Indonesian workers

Mongabay and Tansa and The Environmental Reporting Collective 13 Sep 2021

Burning forests to make energy: EU and world wrestle with biomass science

Justin Catanoso 19 Aug 2021

Billions in fishing subsidies finance social, ecological harm, report finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 Jul 2021

Can the Japanese seafood industry reconcile their finances with nature?

François Mosnier 15 Jun 2021

Meet the 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 15 Jun 2021

Reptile traffickers trawl scientific literature, target newly described species

Pavel Toropov 26 May 2021

Leaders make bold climate pledges, but is it ‘all just smoke and mirrors?’: Critics

Justin Catanoso 23 Apr 2021

From penguins to sharks to whales, swimming in circles is a surprisingly common trait

Basten Gokkon 26 Mar 2021

In Japan, scientists look to the past to save the future of grasslands

Marlowe Starling 8 Mar 2021

500+ experts call on world’s nations to not burn forests to make energy

Justin Catanoso 15 Feb 2021

Report: Illegal Russian lumber flooded Europe despite timber laws

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2020

Birthday party on ship may have led to oil spill in Mauritius, Panama regulator says

Mongabay.com 16 Sep 2020

Business risk and COVID-19 are pushing Asian financiers away from coal

Nithin Coca 3 Aug 2020

Ring-tailed lemurs ‘stink flirt’ (it’s not as bad as it sounds)

Mongabay.com 16 Apr 2020

New species of shrimp-like creature found in a whale shark’s mouth

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2019

Japan builds coal plants abroad that wouldn’t be allowed at home: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2019

Mysterious plants that thrive in darkness, steal food: Q&A with botanist Kenji Suetsugu

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Aug 2019

New orchid species from Japan lives on dark forest floor, never blooms

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2019

Ocean currents spin a web of interconnected fisheries around the world

Basten Gokkon 4 Jul 2019

Japan resumes commercial whale hunting

Mongabay.com 2 Jul 2019

Otter cafés and ‘cute pets craze’ fuel illegal trafficking in Japan and Indonesia

Erik Hoffner 28 May 2019

Japan leaving IWC, to resume commercial whaling

Mongabay.com 26 Dec 2018

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